mose-tolliver-al-1925-2006-folk-art-painting-house-with-creatures
Lot 2313
Mose Tolliver (AL, 1925-2006), Folk Art Painting (House with Creatures)
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Paint on plywood, the work is centered with a large house, people and creatures climbing the walls and roof, signed "MOSET".

24 x 23 3/4 in.

Private Collection, Boone, North Carolina

Mose Tolliver was born to sharecroppers near Montgomery, Alabama. After a severe injury in the late 1960s, he turned to painting as a means to combat boredom and pain. Tolliver's work has been exhibited in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, American Folk Art Museum, New York, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama.

Good condition.